Read the full blog entry. I have been encouraging my students on ‘Dreams and Nightmares: Britain & Europe” to blog… due to validation requirements, this is not compulsory, so it’s interesting to see which students see the value in learning to blog (surely one of the up & coming skills for life)… Our “Woking Point of View” above has compiled 2 entries, as has MattVeep77, whilst Big Phil & Ernie seems to be enjoying blogging away about many others things…. I am pleased to see that the students are allowing their personalities and opinions to come through in the blog, something that can be difficult in standard academic essays, which require us very much to rely on the empirical evidence… although a balance is good! Read, enjoy and comment!
Tag: Europe
Jim Aulich & John Hewitt (2007)
“This book makes a critical and historical analysis of the public information poster and its graphic derivatives in Britain and Europe during the First World War. Governments need public support in time of war. The First World War was the first international conflict to see the launch of major publicity campaigns designed to maintain public support for national needs and government policies. What we now know as spin has its origins in the phenomenon. Then, as now, the press, photography and film played an important role, but in the early 20th century there was no radio, television or internet and the most publicly visible advertising medium was the poster. Considering the museological and memorialising imperatives behind the formation of the war publicity collection at the Imperial War Museum, this fascinating book goes on to provide a constitutional and iconographical analyses of the British Government recruiting, War Loan and charity campaigns; the effect of the inroads of the poster into important public and symbolic spaces; a comparative analysis of European poster design and the visual contribution of the poster through style and iconography to languages of ‘imagined communities’ and the construction of the individual subject. The book will of interest to design historians, historians and readers involved with the study of communication arts, publicity, advertising and visual culture at every level.”